Chávez thinks you suck; you agree
Quico says: As Chávez takes to blaming more and more of the nation’s problems on you, the latest Datanalisis poll confirms it: 23.9% of respondents identify “la gente”...
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Killing capital
Quico says: Hernando de Soto’s conception of “dead capital” is one of the genuinely intriguing ideas spawned by the development literature in recent years. For de Soto, the...
Our future at fire-sale prices
Juan Cristóbal says: – Not content with issuing debt to finance capital flight, as they did a few weeks ago, the Chávez administration recently announced a new round...
What El Sistema teaches us about social policy
Juan Cristóbal says: – The well-deserved, near-universal praise heaped on Venezuela’s Youth Orchestra Program (“El Sistema”) is a source of pride for all Venezuelans. And yet, reading the...
With no electricity, nobody can hear your cadenas
Juan Cristóbal says: – The two short videos are fascinating. In a few short minutes, you can see Chávez the deranged (hiring “planes” to bomb the clouds and...
Your apartment is their heritage
Quico says: Chavismo has surely entered its churrigueresque period when the government decrees a gas station as a protected historical site, an irreducible part of the nation’s cultural...
Evita G. officially loses it...
Quico says: Read this and tell me Eva Golinger hasn’t lost her marbles completely. I can’t even piece together what the specific offense she’s accusing MM of was...
No good, two-timin' SOB...
Quico says: OK, I admit it: I haven’t been posting very much recently cuz I’ve been…gasp…two-timin’ this blog! The shame! The other blog project is, erm…a lot different.
The final frontier
Juan Cristóbal says: – Loyal reader Kepler has a post on his blog about Amazonas state. It’s well worth a read, if anything for the links and the...
Iranian uranium turns Iranian centrifuges into silly putty
Quico says: For the longest time, the conventional wisdom was that it would be senseless for Iran to seek uranium supplies outside its own territory, because they could...
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